Fastener or tie device.



1.: LENZEN. FASTENER OR TIE DEVICE. APPLICATION. man DEC. 11. 1911.

Patented June 4, 1918.

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JOHN LENZEN, 0F PATERSON', NEW JERSEY.

FASTENER OB TIE DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June a, 1918.

Application filed December 17, 1917. Serial No. 207,465.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN LENZEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastener or TieDevices, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide a simple and inexpensive tie device whereby anyrope, cord or other flexible line, such as a clothes line, may veryeasily be drawn up taut and then efiectually secured without forming aknot or tie in the line itself.

The invention consists in a flexible-line fastener or tie deviceincluding a tautening head-piece, having loops at its end portions, oneadapted to have an end of the line attached thereto and the otherafiording a running hitch-hold for the line, and a shank extending fromthe head-piece, and having at its free end converging portions form inga line clamp, the line being adapted to be wrapped around the shankbetween the head-piece and clamp.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 shows a clothes line extended between two supports and havingits ends connected by the improved fastener or tie device;

Fig. 2 is a view on a larger scale showing the fastener connecting theends of the line;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation and Fig. 1 a plan of the fastener;

Fig. 5 is a side elevation and Fig. 6 a plan of a modified form of thefastener.

I preferably form the device of wire, though this is not essential.Suitable heavy wire is the material illustrated in the draw- Thehead-piece of the device as shown in Figs. 1 to 4: is formed by bendingthe wire near one end thereof to form a loop a (preferably an open one)therein, and then a suitable distance from loop a bending another loopI) in the wire, loops 0 and b preferabl standing in the same plane andproduce by bending the wire in reverse directions. Loop 7) is an openloop.

To form the shank c, the wire is bent from the loop Z) in a directionwhich is preferably about perpendicular to the plane of the loops a andb; the shank is related to the head-piece, in the front or rearelevation of the device (Fig. 2) about the same as the vertical to thehorizontal part of the letter T, so that the shank has a loop to theright and left of it.

The free end of the shank is bent off, as at (Z, and then rebent, as ate, in such manner that (Z 6 form a substantially V-shapcd clamp whosesides are more or less convergent.

The device as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 is quite similar to that shown inFigs. 1 to t excepting that the loop a (corresponding to loop a) in thiscase stands in a plane at an angle to the plane of the loop b.

For a purpose to be indicated the shank is preferably not straight, butis sinuous or undulating. In Figs. 1 to 4, this is acconr plished bymaking the shank substantially spiral in form; in Figs. 5 and 6 thesinuosities or undulations all lie in the same plane.

In using the device, a loop is formed in one end of the rope A, beingengaged with the loop a of the fastener; the end of the line A may be inany other manner, however, attached to loop a. The line having beenpassed around the pulleys B or other supports, its free end portion isentered in the loop 6, which affords a running hitchhold for said freeend portion. Then the free end portion is drawn upon until the line isas taut as required (the device affords a very good purchase for thispurpose, it will be observed), whereupon the operator wraps the lineone, two or more times around the shank and finally enters it into theclamp, forcing it between its convergent sides 61 6 until a good grip iseffected. The security of the hold is insured by wrapping the linearound the shank before engaging it in the clamp, and this is obviouslyaugmented by giving the shank a sinuous form. Since the shank projectsat an angle from the headpiece of the device, the operator can readilyeffect the wrapping of the endportion of the line around said shank andthe engagement of the line in the clamp without the hand which isgripping said end portion having to let go until the line is securelyfastened.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is 1. A flexible-line fastener including atautening head-piece having loops at its end portions, one adapted tohave an end of the line attached thereto and the other being an openloop and affording a running hitch hold for the line, and a shankextending from the head-piece and having at its free end convergentportions forming a line clamp, the line being adapted to be wrappedaround'said shank between the head-piece and clamp.

52. A flexible-line fastener including a tautening head-piece havingloops at its end portions, one adapted to have an end of the lineattached thereto and the other being an open loop and afi'ording arunning hitchhold for the line, and a sinuous shank extending from thehead-piece and having at its free end convergent portions forming a lineclamp, the line being adapted to be Wrapped around said shank betweenthe head-piece and clamp.

3. A flexible-line fastener formed of a single piece of wire including atautening head-piece having loops at its end portions,

one adapted to have an end of the line at- Copies of thin patent may beobtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner ofPatents,

Washington, D. G."

